It's a kind of preview of what's coming in the event that the Joyful One is (s)elected in about two months from now. If she is (s)elected – and that looks entirely likely given the Orange Man's intellectually shambolic performance at the "debate" – if you want to call it that – earlier this week. He conveyed once again – in his usual disjointed way – that he does not have any principles that form the basis of his positions on issues.

He agrees, in principle, with everything the Joyful One says.

They both have "plans" for us. The bickering is over whose "plan" is "better." According to them. In other words, which of the two "plans" will be imposed upon us by people who think of themselves as the planners of our lives.

Our choice – if you want to call it that – is which of their plans we'll choose to have imposed on us by which of the two planners and their respective retinues of courtiers. Elon Musk, for example. Orange Man has said he will give him the job of determining whether various federal "plans" are wasteful.

There is never any talk of ending these plans.

The Orange Man says he will decree no more taxes on tips and overtime. In other words – and assuming he actually does so decree – some people will have to pay less of their earnings in taxes. It is never everyone will pay less – let alone no – taxes. That being problematic because it does not keep various groups of us squabbling among ourselves for favors bestowed by the authority that never cedes its authority to rescind its favor.